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Consciousness Quotes


"It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living."


"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."


"Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable."


"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind."


"Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms."


"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."


"A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it."


"There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country."


"There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us."


"Consciousness is a transformational dynamic force which transforms us by changing our imaginations and perceptions."


"Universal consciousness can never die, it can only transform and transcend."


"For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell."


"Consciousness is a state of existence where subjects are aware of their surroundings and can respond to its demands according to internal and external perceptions."


"Consciousness resides in the gap between electrons, protons, and neutrons."


"In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah."


"The true understanding of life and its purposes comes from an understanding of consciousness."


"Consciousness is a magic of our brain and an illusion of our mind."


"Consciousness and awareness are the sources of all possibilities and infinite creativity."


"Consciousness is clear, it reflects colors of the vessel."


"When you gain higher consciousness, your consciousness becomes universal and you become ageless, endless, and universal."


"When you achieve higher consciousness you will not achieve anything, but you will lose everything that is not important and is not yours."


"The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive."


"We are the flower of eternal consciousness."


"As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself."


"The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion."


"Uniconsciousess is a consciousness and awareness that everything, everyone, every beauty, every life, and every thought arises from the same thing. We are one. We are different expressions of one."


"The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness."


"The level of consciousness defines the beauty of our lives."


"The vastness of your imagination depends on the level of your consciousness, the power of your awareness, and the deepness of your perception."


"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."


"The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness."


"Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility."


"When someone achieves higher consciousness, he or she never dies. They only transform."


"When you are conscious, try to develop an acute awareness about the mysterious aspects of our being, our consciousness."


"Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to."


"The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness."


"Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news."


"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh."


"The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness."


"When I tried to understand consciousness, I found out how simple it was, but we try to make it so complicated."


"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."


"This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness."


"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."


"The level of consciousness determines the deepness of thoughts and the awareness of the beauty of life."


"Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer."


"You are not the body, you are not the mind - you are the observer."


"But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of."


"I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness."


"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."


"I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths."
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